[binarycloud-dev] platforms and makefiles

[alex b. <en...@tu...>]

hi all,

The makefile system is coming along nicely, but I thought it would be
relevant to bring up some important issues:

Right now, the makefile system is 100% unix. It uses tools available on most
standard bsd and linux distros, and generally relies on the standard set of
unix tools available from those OSs.

I know there are a few people on here using Windows, and I wanted to give
you all the heads up that the first revs of the makefile system will not
support windows at all. I'm 100% open to contributions in this category, if
anyone wants to take our makefile system and provide patches to make it all
work on the dos command line, I'm happy to include those in the distro: but
all core development work is done on linux, and all of the other little
useful utilities like the release and promote scripts assume a unix
environment. (I was amazed that the r1 release functioned just fine out of
the box on windows, so maybe the job of getting the makefiles to work on win
is not such a big deal)
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best,

_alex